Name/Title
Color images, 36, of photos/postcard images of Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, ca. 1907-2000.Entry/Object ID
2004.004.0031Description
Digital color images of 36 color photos or postcard images of the Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, circa 1907-2000. Photographs taken 2000; photographer not identified. Item as assembled circa 2001 in six plastic storage sleeves with numbers and typed captions. Tiffs media archive
Captions of photos as found (postcard descriptions not noted as all were listed as reproductions from Museum holdings.) Photographs were all dated from 2000.
1. Hoboken Terminal from Hudson River with abandoned ferry slips 1-4, 2000.
2. Ferries at Hoboken Terminal postcard.
3. Hoboken Terminal ferry entrance, 2000. [photograph of blocked entrance on second floor ferry concourse.]
4. postcard
5. (photo) Ferry terminal from Hudson River with remains of Stern patent mechanism for easier dual-level load of ferryboats, 2000. [View is north with the old Erie Lackawanna sign over the slips.]
6. (photo) Ferry slip two looking toward midtown Manhattan skyline across Hudson River, 2000.
7. (photo) Ferry slip 2 with gangways, 2000.
8. (photo) Ferry terminal concourse - one of the world's largest unobstructed interior spaces (70' x 470' x 28-1/2'), 2000.
9. (photo) Deterioration of paneled and battered pier, ferry terminal facade, 2000.
10, 11. postcards
12. (photo) Ferry terminal battered pier; cornice with acroteria; sealife and floral patterns, 2000.
13. postcard
14. (photo) Hoboken Terminal, 2000. [Exterior view looking south from north end of Lackawanna Plaza.]
15. (photo) Lamp at entrance to rail terminal, 2000.
16. (photo) Ferry terminal facade, 2000.
17. postcard
18. (photo) Copper sheathing detail of ferry terminal facade, 2000.
19. (photo) Entrance to main rail terminal waiting room showing concrete construction under deteriorating copper sheathing, 2000.
20. (photo) Detail of entrance to main rail terminal waiting room, 2000.
21. (photo) Entrance to main rail terminal waiting room, 2000. [Shows clock and "Hoboken Terminal" sign.]
22. (photo) Main waiting room in railroad termianl following completion of interior restoration in 1999, 2000.
23. (photo) Arriving a.m. rail commuters, 2000.
24. (photo) Restored main waiting room, 2000.
25. (photo) Train shed with slit over each track let locomotive smoke escape while sheltering passengers without expensive single-span shed (commonplace prior to Hoboken Terminal), 2000.
26. postcard: Smoke from locomotive escaping through aperture between canopies.
27. (photo) Diesel locomotive idling under canopy opening, 2000.
28. (photo) Hoboken Terminal at left and World Trade Center towers in Manhattan at right, 2000.
29. postcard
30. (photo) Train shed with sunlight to platform through slits in canopy, 2000.
31. (photo) Former [Railroad] YMCA with main waiting room, from southwest, 2000. [actually view is to the southwest.]
32. (photo) Former YMCA, now NJ Transit offices over looking Manhattan, 2000.
33. Detail of former YMCA, 2000.
34. (photo) Former YMCA rooms (west facade facing railroad yard), with bus lane in front of train shed; Manhattan's World Trade Center towers in background, 2000.
35. (photo) East facade of former YMCA with private office building [Baker Plaza] across Hudson Plaza [Sloan or Lackawanna Plaza], 2000.
36. (photo) Former YMCA (north facade facing Hudson River, George Washington Bridge), 2000.Acquisition
Accession
2004.004Source or Donor
StaffAcquisition Method
Collected by StaffCredit Line
Museum collection.Made/Created
Date made
2000 - 2001Notes
Date: 2000-2001General Notes
Note
Display Value: Good
Original or Copy: Digital Copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2004-12-05
